Predicting software defects with causality tests

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 93, Issue , 2014, Pages 24-41

  Couto, Cesar ^a,b   Pires, Pedro ^a   Valente, Marco Tulio ^a   Bigonha, Roberto S ^a   Anquetil, Nicolas ^c  

^a Department of Computer Science UFMG ^*  (Brazil)

^b CENTRO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA DE MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Causality; Defect prediction; Granger test

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; FORECASTING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CAUSALITY; CAUSALITY TEST; DEFECT PREDICTION; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOURCE CODE METRICS; SOURCE CODES; TARGET SYSTEMS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 84900800922     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2014.01.033     Document Type: Article

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